Michael Douglas: When were you happiest?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Michael Douglas said elsewhere, not written here

The 60s at the University of California at Santa Barbara weren’t bad.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

EL James British author

Belfast 1994, when my first son was born.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2012 source ↗

Our wedding weekend in Ireland.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 April 2026 source ↗

Bryan Cranston American actor

Now is pretty damned good.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2016 source ↗

Gregg Wallace English broadcaster and writer

When I got married in 2016. I’d had a chance to practise three times before, so I was comfortable.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 April 2022 source ↗

Any cancer survivor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

If I haven’t seen them in years and yet can pick up conversation like it was yesterday.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 March 2011 source ↗

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.